Frame for cigarette packages



Aug. 1, 1933. JQCOBSEN 1,920,864

FRAME FOR CIGARETTE PACKAGES Filed March 9, 1932 INVENTOR Amon Jacobsefl Thus in the said drawing:

Patented Aug. 1, 1933 rear OFFICE 1,920,864 I I FRAME FOR CIGARETTE PACKAGES Anton Jacobsen, Brooklyn, N. Y. Application March 9, 1932. Serial No. 597,668

3 Claims.

corner, and shakes the package to cause the cigarette below the hole to slip out. But when the package has been carried for some time within the pocket of the smoker and has been pressed there, very often with a half-emptied package, the cigarettes stick within the package at a place remote from the hole made, and will not come out. Furthermore, the partly emptied package looses its good shape, it gets ruffled and often cigarettes arebroken in it. e

The object of the present invention is to overarette-packages, thatwill always keep in good shape, and will secure a well controlled forwarding, of all cigarettes toward the emptying-hole and a'smooth discharge of the cigarettes through that hole. i

In order to obtain this result I have devised a new and improved construction of cigarette packages which contain an inner frame adapted to maintain the good shape of the package, even if the package-is more or less emptied; furthermore, this frame is provided with resilient means which forward the cigarettes fromthe more remote partsof the package step by step towards the delivery hole so that all of them can be taken out easily. "In the preferred embodiment of my invention the shape-keeping and cigarette forwarding-device consists in rectangular plates arranged within the package. at the two opposite smaller sides of the same, and held by rubber bands. or metallic-springs tending to bring the more remote plateor plates towards that plate which is at the corner near the delivery hole.

In the drawing'I have shown some examples of such a shape-keeping and cigarette-forwardingframeaccording to my invention.

Figure 1 'is aperspective view of a most simple frame, .consistingsimply of two lateral plates and two rubber-bands pulling them towards each other, but showing no cigarettes within that package I V r j I Figures 12 and 3 are top-views ofthe same frame, showing it filled with cigarettes in the original shape of the full package and in a partly emptied package.

Figures 4. and 5 are two perspective views of a come these difliculties by providing such cig-' the same plates.

somewhat modified form of a cigarette-filled. frameaccording to the invention in which three wall-forming lateral plates or sides are united and pulled towards each other by several rubber bands.

Figures 6 and 7 areagain top views of the completely filled and of the partly emptied cigaretteholdingframe, respectively.

Figure. Sis a horizontal cross-section through the one side wall ofthe frame which consists of two combined plates. 1 i V Figure 9 is aslightly modified construction of the frame shown in the Figs. 4 to 8. x

Figures 10 and 11 are a perspective view and a top-view respectively of another modification of the shape-keeping and cigarettes forwarding the first embodiment, according to the Figures 1 to 3, there are provided two rectangular plates 11 and 12, preferably consisting of card-board, which plates each have at their narrower sides near the corners four small slots 13. An endless rubber band 14 is passed throughthe slots 13, and round the upper cornersA, B, C,.D"at the upper edges of the two plates-11, 12, and'another endless rubber-band 14 is passed through'the slots and round the corners at the lower edges of In manufacturing the packages the two plates are braced apart and the cigarettes are placed between them, as shown in Figure 2. Then the tension of the two rubber-bands 14 will keep the package in the right shape, and

if a number of cigarettes are taken outrthrough the hole 15, the two plates 11 and 12 are step by step pulled nearer together, but always the cigarettes remaining between them will continue to form a neat square block, asshown in Figure 3.

In the second embodiment, shown in Figures 4 to 8, one side of the package-shaping frame con]- sists as before in a rectangular plate 16, and the other side consists of two plates 17, 18, which are of the same. length, but more narrow, and arranged to partly overlap one another. At the corners D and H of the package the outwardly projecting corners of the one plate 18" are cut away.- Near the top of the package, and likewise near its bottom a rubber ribbon is fastened to the fastened at 21 to the outer side of the other or outer side of the other narrower plate 17. The two narrower plates, 17, 18 are furthermore connected with each other by the means of two other rubber ribbons 22, the ends of which are slung round one edge of eachone of the'two plates and-v fixed at their other sides at 23, 24, respectively,

as has been clearly-shown in Figure 8. The rubber ribbons 22 are chosen so as to have only a limited tension or pulling force in order that they, when being stretched and tensioned, will brace the two fastening ends 20, 21 of the members 19, 19" a distance from one another corresponding to the breadth of the broader plate lfijhowever, the rubber ribbons 22 will always tend to pull 1 the two fastening points 20, 21 as near. together, as the number of cigarettes remaining between,

these fastening ends of the r'nembers 19, 19' will,

permit. The tension of the'stretched members 19, 19', however will continuously pull the compositelateral walls or plates' 1'7,--18 towards the wall consisting of the single plate 16, as may be 'c'omparingthe' viewsin Figure 6 and Figure '1- :Thus gradually all'the cigarettes are,

- or any other suitable-'niaterial. 1f, ifhe variation of the package-shaping frame to'iny invention, which is shown in 9,: resembles thatv of the above described embodiment inthe general features in so far as the broader wall or plate "116' at the one end of the package'andthe two narrower plates 117 and 1mm: united by rubber bands 119, 119',

the two narrower plates 117 and 113 are by a rubber band. 122. improvement hi the construction; however, consists in the armngement of the flaps 217, 218 on the longitudinal edges-of the ,narrower platesfll'l and 118,

mpectiyely, as the rubber bands 119, 119" are passed overthe outersides of these flaps and p'ress'n'g them 'against the larger longitudinal sidsiof thelpackagai thus improving the shapeaction of thframe.

Figures" 10' and 11 show an embodiment ofthe'ii'ivention, which, 'if-desired may be made obme'tal Thus-in the construction, as it 'is a reotangularmetal platecarries at each longitudinal a resilient wire frame. The

wire 6! the one frame begins at the top of the,

plate, forms atwiee slightly bent lateral part 26, then it turns into aplane which runs parallel to the plate 25, and'i'n thisplaneit forms the sid'es"2'T,"28 and 29 of a rectangular, not m retedname, and it crosses the'first lateral iflilmhel' likewise twice slightly bent lateral partlfiiflfiand {returns 'to'the plate 25, where ltislastened-to the lower end of the latterm In an nsio gsus' manner, thewire' 31 extendsfor -'warc!ly a' double bent 'atjthe otherilongitu 'dinalsidepf the plate-2'5, in a vertical'plane paralleland clgseto the. frame 27;, 28 and 29 forming another -not complete frame having the three sidsfiz, 33jand 34, whereupon it returns to the metaliplatefi in a dbubleturn 35, which crosses part 31, the end of the part 35' being likewise fastened to the plate 25 at its lower end.

The two upper horizontal stretching members 29 and'34 of the two vertical wire frames, and likewise 30, and the two lower horizontal stretching members 27 and 32 of these wire frames are connected by a spring-wire connection 36 and 37, respectively.

The two vertical wire-frames formed in this way are working in exactly the same manner as the smaller plates 17, 18in the previous illustration; however, if desired, the construction may embrace much smaller boards in which case the said not completed rectangular wire frames 27, 28, 29 and 32,33, 34 serve only as back support for guiding the additional boards.

' There may still be other variations of. the shape-keeping and cigarette-forwarding frame forming the subject matter of this invention,

and it is obvious that changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of the 'severalparts, as shown, within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of the invention; and I do not therefore wish to limit myself to the construction and arrangement shown and described herein.

7 What lclaimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. A shape-keeping and cigarette-delivery frame for cigarette packages, comprising in combination, a broad stiffening wall at the one side of the package and extending parallel to the cigarettes, another stifiening wall atthe opposite side of the package and consisting of two narrower plates partly overlapping each other, rubber bands connecting the said two narrower plates in such a manner as to create a tendency to change the combined width of the latter, and rubber bands connecting the two walls in a direction-crosswise to the length of the cigarettes, so as to pull the'two walls nearer together, at the same time fencing the cigarettes laterally.

'2. A shape-keeping and cigarette-delivering "framefor cigarette packages, and the like, comprising in combination, a stiffening wall at the oneside of the package, extending parallel to the cigarettes, another stiffening wall at the opposite side of the-package, and lateral flaps upon one wall extending partly over the adjoining longitudinal-sidesi of the package, and rubber bands connecting the two wallsin a-direction crosswise to the'lengt-h of the cigarettes, so as to pull the two walls nearer together,. while fencing the cigarettes' laterally.- r

35A shape-keeping and cigarette-delivering frame for cigarette'packages, and the like, comprising in 'combination,;a stiffening wall'ex tending 'over theone smaller-longitudinal side of'the package, another stiffening wall at: the opposite longitudinal side of the-package, and

consistingof two somewhat narrower plates part- 7 age, rubber bands connectingthe two narrower plates in sucha manner as to create a' tendency to change'the combined width' of the saidtwo narrower plates, and other rubber bands ex tending from the narrower plates over the lateral flaps and across the larger longitudinal sides of the package to the first 'mentioned larger stiffening wall. i g

I ANTON JACOBSEN. 

